Zelda has been slowly becoming more woke I fear and that this could just be them sowing confusion across all directions.

The Zelda platform IMO shows the signs of 'safe' boundaries which are just woke enough that they pass but not necessarily so woke as to offend fans too much.

The Mario movie was funny, but it did suffer from a few woke points, however it maintained the core of franchise and managed to incorporate all the different references to games throughout its life from beginning to more recent so I found that callback was well done and the experience was overall fun. It would have been a bit better if they have stuck true to Peach being less over powered at the beginning where she was captured and brought her character up through the film like a Shrek reimagined as opposed to the opposite being that Mario was the one who has to grow while peach was upgraded at the beginning.

At least with Shrek the reveal is done much more of a humorous way that the convention is allowed to somewhat go as we expect, and then diverge after we would normally expect it. These new films are not so much about surprising the viewer any more, and instead seem to just focus on establishing the message from the get go and then drilling it into the viewers forehead throughout the duration of the movie despite all storytelling elements explicitly saying to do anything but that....